Big Daddy Kane - Word to the Mother (Land)(1988)

[00:01.54] Grab a hold of yourself, open your eyes
[00:03.10] Get wise to the exercise
[00:05.69] Being taught by the teacher that抯 most dominant
[00:08.12] You need knowledge?
[00:09.78] Well I抦 dropping it
[00:10.85] Listen to the rap allow it to trap
[00:12.92] Your body and soul so that you can adapt
[00:15.21] To the man on display as I take you away
[00:17.62] So may I?
[00:18.79] Proud to be a Black man
[00:22.07] Coming exact and
[00:23.45] Giving up to brothers five on the back hand
[00:24.54] Pray for lease and peace upon each other
[00:27.81] With my sisters and brothers
[00:29.25] I say the mother, as in the motherland
[00:32.70] But on the other hand, another man
[00:35.28] Tackled and shackled our ancestors
[00:37.56] But we beat him with freedom, so let抯 bless the
[00:40.18] Country that we all came from
[00:42.54] Because the moral of it all is we shall overcome
[00:44.68] The cream will keep rising
[00:46.82] We be sizing
[00:47.75] Up, the Asiatic one is enterprising
[00:49.96] Building and building to carry on
[00:51.91] All the way from Malcolm X to Farrakhan
[00:54.25] Martin Luther was a tutor, many were pupils
[00:57.25] Those who fell victim were those without scruples
[00:59.73] However, to sever, we could never
[01:02.38] So hold up the peace sign and stand together
[01:04.74] Take heed to the words that I manifest
[01:07.40] And when I抦 through speaking, Marley Marl抣l do the rest
[01:09.82] (X2)
[01:10.25] Take a stand the fight for power
[01:52.08] Cause we抳e been here before the Mayflower
[01:54.35] Living superior abiding by nature
[01:56.83] The history of the Asiatic one paid the
[01:59.43] Price to be paid in slavery
[02:01.48] Like the name of Antonio was gave to me
[02:03.75] But knowledge of self broke every shackle and chain
[02:06.95] Now I declare myself as the Big Daddy Kane
[02:09.77] The teacher, teaching a lesson to be heard
[02:11.82] That抯 word, to the mother my brother
[02:14.01] So discover the truth of one another
[02:16.72] Cause here抯 the real deal upon our skin color
[02:19.24] Lay down white, yellow, red or pink
[02:21.76] But the color of black is most dominant
[02:23.83] The rising and sizing can never cease
[02:26.63] Peace!
[02:29.73] (X2)
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